NCBA Ignite <info@ncba.coop>
Educating Consumers to Live Cooperatively
On Sept. 10,
the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) and Cabot Creamery
Cooperative are launching a campaign to spread the word that co-ops are the fix
(Twitter hashtag: #TheFix) to many of our country's biggest challenges. An IYC
legacy initiative, we're rolling out this public awareness campaign to educate
consumers on how co-ops help with job creation, affordable housing, healthy
food access and worker empowerment. On the same day, we'll be rolling out the
new CooperateUSA mobile
app for Apple and Android devices. This powerful resource helps you find co-ops
anywhere, anytime—from your local community to across the US. You earn rewards
for using the mobile app to do everyday things, like shopping, eating, banking
and living cooperatively….
News & Views
New England
Co-ops Find Creative Ways to Celebrate IYC
The Northeast
is home to a vibrant community of cooperative enterprises, including food,
farmer, worker, energy and artisan co-ops and credit unions. In honor of the
International Year of Cooperatives, the Neighboring Food Co-op Association has
committed to posting a new co-op profile to their website for each month of
2012, and they've encouraged members to use these profiles in newsletters,
websites and promotional materials. Individual co-ops in the region have
already found a number of other creative ways to help celebrate IYC. For
example, when patrons check out at City Market/Onion River Co-op, they see a
sign on the cash register highlighting IYC and encouraging them to "ask
your cashier today how to become a member in 2012." In addition, Littleton
Food Co-op celebrated other regional co-ops with an ad in local papers, while
the Franklin Community Co-op (with help from the Valley Cooperative Business
Association) successfully encouraged the Greenfield (MA) City Council to pass a
resolution recognizing IYC.
2012 Fall
Green Worker Co-op Academy Begins
Green Worker
Cooperatives is dedicated to incubating worker-owned green businesses in the
South Bronx of New York City to help build a strong local economy rooted in
democracy and environmental justice. Their Fall 2012 Co-op Academy has just
begun, with Ginger Moon, which successfully raised the necessary funds to begin
coursework. Ginger Moon’s mother-led team is dedicated to providing healing
foods for the childbearing year.
Chinese Solar-Panel Exporters Face the Threat
of EU Tariffs
By
Jonathan Stearns, Bloomberg
6 de Setembro de 2012
The EU opened
a probe into whether Chinese manufacturers of solar panels sell them in the
27-nation bloc below cost, a practice known as dumping. The inquiry covers 21
billion euros ($26 billion) of imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic
modules or panels and cells and wafers used in them.
At stake is
whether European companies such as Solarworld AG, Germany’s largest maker of
the renewable-energy technology,
win levies to counter growing competition from China following similar U.S.
trade protection.
The
investigation will determine whether solar panels from China are “being dumped
and whether the dumped imports have caused injury to the union industry,” the
European Commission, the EU’s trade authority in Brussels, said today in the
Official Journal. The commission has nine months to decide whether to impose
provisional anti-dumping duties for half a year and EU governments have 15
months to decide whether to apply “definitive” levies for five years.
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Dramatic cost reduction in photovoltaics (PV), combined with lower
electrical storage costs from batteries for the automotive industry, are
creating new business opportunities for grid-tied PV systems that include
energy storage
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"Green
America" <coopamericanews@coopamerica.org>
Save the date!
The Green Festival returns to Washington, DC the weekend of September 29 and
30. Festivities start Saturday at 10AM and Sunday at 11AM at the DC Convention
Center
August
was an all-time record month for sales of the Chevy
Volt. The final
tally was not available yet, but GM said the company expects the Volt’s
August sales, which includes both 2012 and 2013 models, to top 2,500 - a 35
percent increase over July sales. Yet, apparently the sales of the Volt are
still not strong enough and GM will close the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant,
again, for four weeks this fall. Given that the automaker appears to be struggling to position and promote the Volt, we have three recommendations.
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